Arnt

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by Arnt 2y ago
Clue is based in Berlin, says the article. The full brunt and pressure of the American legal system isn't terribly scary when you're in Berlin.
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by Arnt 2y ago
Because it isn't a Markov chain. Gaining a good understanding of what it is and of its limits makes sense. Too many people think of the recent AI advances as a sort of Markov chain with lipstick. That's deeply wrong.
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by Arnt 2y ago
This sucks so much. One one hand, who cares about a single species in a single location? But we've come too far, and now the question is really: who cares about one of the last few similar species in one of the last few remaining locat
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by Arnt 2y ago
Never, per se? You can define "take over" in different ways to change the answer. Put yourself into the position of some big customer. Will you change your usage profile to get really cheap electricity, or not? Solar will or won&#
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by Arnt 2y ago
Yes, and no matter how much less meat the billionaires eat, it's not going to move the needle. A treaty that is sure not to move the needle won't get signed.
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by Arnt 2y ago
The problem is that it doesn't matter. Most of that those giant emissions are your daily commute etc. The aren't enough private jets to really make a dent compared to all the middle-class car drivers. Merely being a reasonable dem
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by Arnt 2y ago
It also refers to investing where you don't try to exercise powers, despite having the ability. And if you invest a ten-digit sum, you do have the ability. Money talks.
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by Arnt 2y ago
Well, if he told the management of Apple and the Bank of America what to do, I didn't notice. Which is quite plausible, I might very well not. But did you?
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by Arnt 2y ago
In practical terms: Back in those days, people would store a mixture of ASCII and other data in the same database, e.g. ASCII in some rows, ISO-8859-9 in others. (My bank at the time did that, some customers had all-ASCII names, some had na
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by Arnt 2y ago
I'm a bit in a hurry, don't have time for close reading. Does that article say some Google apps (notably Maps) store locations on your device even if you have configured them to not store it in your Google account? I may miss some
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by Arnt 2y ago
Could you try an argument that unicode is insecure compared to roll-your-own support for the necessary scripts? You may consider "necessary" to mean "the ones used in countries where at least two of Microsoft, Apple and Sun s
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by Arnt 2y ago
Uh-huh. At that time roundtrip compatiblity with all widely used 8-bit encodings was a major design criterion. Roundtrip meaning that you could take an input string in e.g. iso 8859-9, convert it to unicode, convert it back, and get the sam
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by Arnt 2y ago
When do you think that first mistake happened? (Pick a year, then think about why it didn't happen in that year.)
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by Arnt 2y ago
You can trust Google to do what it says, and yes I've seen Google obey robots.txt. You can't trust Google to do what you think is right.
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by Arnt 2y ago
Once upon a time, there were just three widely supported netmasks, namely /8, /16 and /24. The generalised netmasks were introduced and debugged because IP address pressure became serious. Before classless networking was gene
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by Arnt 2y ago
Remarkable indeed. I find it difficult to believe that anyone will use those buildings though. https://www.dezeen.com/2023/10/17/trio-boutique-hotels-neom-... Three luxury hotels in the middle of nowhere? The
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by Arnt 2y ago
Right. That's policy routing. You can talk to an ISP, have a cable installed and a peering session, gain trust, offer cheap or free traffic delivery, and then publish a route via that session. Your trusting peer may/will then send
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by Arnt 2y ago
London is the densest, but the comparison was between the central area of one city and the entire area of another, perhaps even including suburbs beyond the formal city limits of the second. When you're leave out enough detail and just
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by Arnt 2y ago
Greater London compared to Manhattan, apparently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_London . I don't see what conclusions can be drawn from that comparison, which is why I asked GP to be explicit.
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by Arnt 2y ago
They were allocated in a period when allocations were basically either 256 or 64k addresses. If you planned to operate a network with a few sites, maybe you had five offices and might get more, then you got 64k addresses. The time for reall
651.
by Arnt 2y ago
I've contracted for someone whose customers thought so. (My job involved making stuff work with without an important part from a defunct vendor.) Their costs really did increase all the time. Not needlessly, despite what some people th
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by Arnt 2y ago
I think your trying to imply something, but I cannot tell what. Could you possibly make it explicit?
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by Arnt 2y ago
Yes, but doing it intentionally isn't as simple as one might think. First, BGP generally prefers the shortest path and yours is going to be a little long, so unless the best original path is very long you need on some transit provider
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by Arnt 2y ago
Thinking back on the discussions and decisions I remember, they all concerned countries that were similar to each other, and in a sense they were discussed precisely because of that. In theory you might have Indonesia as your home base an
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by Arnt 2y ago
I looked at the page page's numbers and arrived at the opposite conclusion. Take the top graph on the first page: countries. I've worked at two places where I had insight into web access and logs and such. I shouldn't go into
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by Arnt 2y ago
Yes, indeed. Now, does GA's sample actually have significant bias? If it does, then showing the practical effects should be easy for experts at a competing company, don't you too think so?
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by Arnt 2y ago
A lot of text there, but more deflecting than substantive. The central claim seems to be this: «In fact, according to the Orbit Media study shared above, the accuracy of GA4 as compared to Plausible –– due to the cookie consent banner’s pre
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by Arnt 2y ago
There seems to be an unstated opinion here: that cities cannot fund their general expenses from parking tickets. It's not clear to me why that should be so. As I see it, taxing unwanted behaviour is fair. The city needs to fund its exp
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by Arnt 2y ago
A rule that's simple enough to understand reasonably quickly is also simple enough to mishandle some corner case. In this case: Pity for the guys who build Putin's glide bombs.
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by Arnt 2y ago
It doesn't matter. The sanctions say "don't cooperate with those companies", not "unless the cooperation is harmless" or "only according to your judgment" or anything like that.

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